Baines Simmons, the aviation safety consultancy arm of Air Partner, was awarded a four-year contract with the European Defence Agency (EDA). “The EDA has contracted Baines Simmons a couple of times for consultancy support in the last few years,” said Henk Corporaal, the EDA project officer on airworthiness. “From our...

Halldale Group, publishers of Military Simulation & Training (MS&T) magazine, the leading simulation & training publication of the global defense industry for more than 30 years, announced its 2017 list of International Simulation and Training Industry Awards winners and finalists, which include: 2017 MST Industry Awards Final Ribbon Winners List...

The United States Air Force (USAF) is undergoing three initiatives to address the growing pilot shortage. The first is to increase aviation incentive pay, or flight pay, for officers and enlisted pilots. Starting on October 1, 2017, this is the first flight pay increase since 1999. The second initiative expands...

Cohort company MASS has underlined its credentials as a leading provider of training support with the planning and implementation of a major UK Joint Forces Command (JFC) exercise at a military base in Cornwall centered on achieving over 90 training objectives set by the JFC. Over 1100 people took part...

Rostvertol and Russian Helicopters, part of the Russian state corporation Rostec, produced the first of the new Mi-28UB helicopters. The primary purpose of this new model is for flight instruction and training personnel. “The Mi-28 proved its efficiency, so we are expecting that its training version will be of great...

Lockheed Martin has celebrated the latest milestone for the AIR 5428 Pilot Training System at a ceremony to mark the Chief of Air Force (CAF) completing the first flight of AIR 5428's in-service Pilatus PC-21. The AIR 5428 Pilot Training System is an integrated solution tailored for all future pilots...

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has dispatched its two largest aircraft — C-17A Globemaster III transport and KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport — to the United States for Exercise Mobility Guardian 17. Held in Washington State from 30 July to 12 August 2017, Mobility Guardian 17 is conducted by the...

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of five companies awarded a position on a five-year, $250 million contract to provide aviation training services in support of Security Assistance programs for the U.S. Army’s Security Assistance Training Management Organization (SATMO). The SATMO program is a component of the U.S. Security Cooperation Enterprise that...

Rockwell Collins is to provide the French Air Force FOMEDEC training program with Visual Display Systems (VDS) for its Pilatus PC-21 simulators. Under a subcontract awarded by CAE, Rockwell Collins will develop two Spectraview Visual Display Systems in Salt Lake City, Utah, support CAE with integrating the systems at the...

Sundog Software has released version 5 of its SilverLining Sky 3D Cloud and Weather Software Development Kit (SDK) for simulation and game developers to enable more immersive flight training in dangerous weather conditions. "SilverLining 5 includes a new library of hand-modeled cumulonimbus thunderheads and towering cumulus clouds," explains Frank Kane,...